Security restrictions bypass - CVE-2018-2755

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Security restrictions bypass - CVE-2018-2755

Published: April 20, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12009
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 7.5 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-2755
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a local unauthenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.

The weakness exists in the MySQL Server component of Oracle MySQL due to improper security restrictions. A local attacker can execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

Affected software


Amazon Linux AMI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Slackware Linux
Fedora
Tivoli Network Manager IP Edition
mysql-5.5 (Debian package)
mariadb (Alpine package)
openSUSE Leap
community-mysql
mariadb

How to mitigate CVE-2018-2755

Install update from vendor's website.

mysql-5.5 (Debian package) - addressed in versions 5.5.60-0+deb8u1, 5.5.62-0+deb8u1
mariadb (Alpine package) - update to 10.1.37-r0
community-mysql - addressed in versions 5.7.22-1.fc26, 5.7.22-1.fc27, 5.7.22-1.fc28
mariadb - addressed in versions 10.1.33-1.fc26, 10.2.15-2.fc27, 10.2.15-2.fc28

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